The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-10-25
Mary SilligO Awakened at Day
break by a MurderOus As
sau!t.
Bleeding From a Dozen Wounds,
She Battles Bravely With
Her COwardiy En-
envy.

st. Louis, Oct 20.-Miss Mary Silligo, q
gi1l-of-s l-work, in the employ Of August
Ebinger, al his dairy, 3S4l Choteau aven'
ne, was cruelty awakened from sleep at :
O'Clock yesterday morning by the blows on
her head of hatchet, which was being
swung by a fendish masked man. She
had been dosing q moment before, and
when the murderous bows began to rain
down on her defenseless head she could see
the Ratchet glimmer in the light of lam
tern the fiend carried. Shrieking murder
and seemingly possessed of supernatural
strength, the girl fought desperately fol-
her life, but the asshilant did not leave
her room until she had received three ugly
gashes on the top of her head, three on the
forehead, one on the wrist, and another
across her fingers. The bloOdthirsty in
iruder carried lantern. and by its light
the girl recognized him as Henry Wemken
WHO formerly worked for Ebinger, but who
was discharged three weeks ago. She did
not have time to call him by name, though,
for he struck her down with the Ratchet.
BATTLING FOR LIFE.
The girl arose with the blood pouring
from her wounds, and taught her murder
ous visitor like man. The struggle was
an uneven one, for the would-be assassin
was desperate and struck her with the
deadly weapon again and again. Losing
the Ratchet, the villain used his fist 10 deal
the unfortunate woman some heavy blows
in the side and d. The bleeding girl,
CORY with the life fluid from head to foot,
staggered into Mrs. Ebinger's room and
was laid on bed. DR.. Barber was soon
at The girls bedside and pronounced her
wounds very serious, but not necessarily
fatal. III the instrument had not been
dull the doctor believed any one of the
blows on the head fatal Meanwhile the
police has begun work upon the case.
The girl was aroused sufficiently to name
the villain, and he was found in bed be-
tween and o'clock at Charles Talleu-
bach's boarding honse, 1000 Clayton road,
and taken to the station. On the way to
the city the police had TO pass Ebinger's,
and they led their prisoner into the
presence of his victim, who was propped
up in bed with a surgeon at her side.
" emken looked at the patient a moment
and then said:
"Mary, you will not say hurt you"
ayes, will" was the prompt answer, 81
will swear that you did it."
The girl showed so much agitation in the
presence of the fellow that the police were
obliged to drag him from her presence.
She trembled from head to foot while he
was in the room, and seemed greatly re-
lieved when he had been snatched out OF
the chamber.
DONE FOR REVENGE.
This man knew that il was the habit OF
the Ebinger people to milk their cows be-
tween / and $50 o'clock, and that Mr..
Ebinger left with his milk at o'clock /;
that tine mixers, including the Silligo girl,
went to bed after milking time. He had
been discharged because the girl had seen
him steal the key of Mrs. EbiRger's bureau,
in which the family valusbles were kept,
and the police think his motive for the
outrageous deed was revenge. When dress
ing to 20 to the station the officer noticed
that the hands and face of the accused were
covered with blood, and that the sheets in
his bed were bloody. Wemken made an
attempt to wash the blood off his hards,
but wss intercepted BY the officers. They
asked him how the blood got spattered over
bis clothes, and he said: my nose bleeds